Increasing crime rates and shrinking NYPD headcounts remind New York City of the 'bad old days'

Increasing crime rates and shrinking NYPD headcounts remind New York City of the 'bad old days'
"Memories of that grim era resurfaced recently as the city's murder rate jumped 22.5% in the first three months of 2010."

When Civil Rights Make Civil Hands Unclean

American Thinker: When Civil Rights Make Civil Hands Unclean
"The advocates of 'social justice' masquerade as partisans of civil rights, but they are actually practitioners of civil wrongs.

Some people in this country think that they have a right to use government compulsion to overcome the free will of their fellow citizens.

In the name of 'social justice,' they claim to have a 'civil right' to health care, and they assert that their fellow citizens have a corresponding civil duty to finance that civil right.

If their fellow citizens disagree, the proponents of 'social justice' have no qualms about using government power to compel their fellow citizens to submit to their notion of civil rights."

» California Dreamin’ — Rachel Maddow and Gov. Moonbeam Cover Up the Real ACORN Scandal - Big Journalism

» California Dreamin’ — Rachel Maddow and Gov. Moonbeam Cover Up the Real ACORN Scandal - Big Journalism: "Did those employees commit a crime in offering to help O’Keefe and Giles themselves? Of course not, because O’Keefe and Giles weren’t actually a pimp and prostitute. All conspiracy crimes (which this would have been) require that there be an underlying criminal act – if no such criminal act exists, then conspiracy cannot be prosecuted. This makes sense. If you and I have a conspiracy to go to Baskin-Robbins, it is not a criminal conspiracy because no criminal act was ever in the offing. If a guy solicits an undercover police officer posing as a 12-year-old girl online, that’s not a crime unless the state legislature has specifically carved out such a situation. Similarly, in this case, no criminal act was in the offing because O’Keefe and Giles were never going to set up a whorehouse."

SPREADING THE WEALTH

SPREADING THE WEALTH
Charlie Sykes: "SPREADING THE WEALTH"

This is good.
It's also sad as it exemplifies the disconnect between our college student's education and the realities of post graduate life.

Arialink Broadband :: Muskegon

Arialink Broadband :: Muskegon:
"Muskegon County Update
Rates
Now providing fast, affordable internet! Residential pricing starts at $18.99! No contract, no introductory pricing, just one simple price for fast reliable broadband. Business pricing starts at $59.00! Arialink has over 7 years of experience in providing business class solutions and superior customer support.

Coverage Map
Currently Under Construction - Please check back for the updated Map."

The good news: Another choice for consumers and competition for Verizon and Comcast.

The bad news: They don't have their coverage map up.

That seems odd to me.

If they have pricing and "experience", why not give future customers a heads up?

And this link came from the Muskegon county main website, http://www.co.muskegon.mi.us/.

Is this an inside deal with the county commissioners and county money?

I'll try to find out.

Court's sidewalk ruling may impact cities, villages

Court's sidewalk ruling may impact cities, villages
"On Thursday, the high court ruled against Lansing in deciding municipalities no longer can seek to dismiss slip-and-fall cases with a defense known as the '2-inch rule.'"

The trial lawyers win another one!
And we the people will pay, again.

In Iraq: When the Music Stopped—the National Anthem

In Iraq: When the Music Stopped—the National Anthem
"This was written by Chaplain Jim Higgins LSA Anaconda.
He currently is serving at the Ballad Airport in Iraq, north of Baghdad.
“Please share only if you are so inclined, he wrote.”
I am inclined."

Spring Football Game, Youth Clinic Scheduled For April 24

Spring Football Game, Youth Clinic Scheduled For April 24
"Michigan State football concludes its 15 spring practices under fourth-year head coach Mark Dantonio with the Green-White intrasquad game on Saturday, April 24 at 1:30 p.m. in Spartan Stadium.

Admission is free."

Who’s Looking Out For You: Is the American Media Corrupt?

Who’s Looking Out For You: Is the American Media Corrupt?
"Today, we have a problem in America.
Entire news operations are devoting themselves not to reporting events honestly, but to promoting a certain ideology or party.

The Fox News Channel, where I work, has been accused of this.
But a study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs found that FNC’s coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign was tough on both candidates, while most other news networks blatantly favored Obama."

"The statement has been made."

Classical Values :: "The statement has been made."
"I've been reading about a rash of fires started by arsonists in Flint, Michigan.
There have been so so many fires in recent weeks that it's hard to give an exact count.

But what I find especially ominous are local news reports quoting Flint officials as saying the arson was committed for political purposes, apparently in retaliation over the fact that the City of Flint has laid off fireworkers."

Sense of Events: A world without nuclear weapons, part 2

Sense of Events: A world without nuclear weapons, part 2\
"From the first world war to the second was only 20 years.
World War II ended almost immediately after the first (and thankfully only) use of atomic weapons.
It's been 65 years since the end of the second world war.
There has been no third world war.
I don't mean that the past six decades have been unicorns and rainbows, but can you imagine what a third world war might have been like even if fought with only conventional weapons?
By Donald Sensing"

Click to see the images of "no nukes".

Andy Dillon campaigning for Michigan Governor's seat: The state must face tax increases | - MLive.com

Andy Dillon campaigning for Michigan Governor's seat: The state must face tax increases
Speaker of the House Andy Dillon addressed the Muskegon County Democratic Party's monthly meeting Thursday, telling those present
state leaders must make difficult choices on tax increases to rescue its budget.
Dillon admitted it was going to be a tough election cycle for the party.
Despite the problems facing the states economy and its government, the former steel company president and GE Capital executive said a new Democratic administration can go a long way in creating jobs and shoring up state and local governments.
'I think it is fixable,' Dillon told the gathering at Muskegon's CIO Hall. 'This is the most important election in my lifetime.'"

Romer: “America is too stupid to understand my superfantastic advanced Math skillz!!!1!”

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by goy @ 10:28. Filed under Politics, Socialism
Geebus, can this discredited windbag of a woman get any MORE frakking annoying???
The federal stimulus act has performed “exactly” as the Obama administration expected it to, Council of Economic Advisers Chairwoman Christina Romer said Sunday.

Right.
The “stimulus” didn’t just perform “within our strict margin of error” or, simply, “admirably”.
No, Romer’s going all in for her shot at The Nobel Prize for Hubris in Economics here with “exactly“.
According to the bogus Office of the President-Elect back in January of 2009, THAT DARK BLUE LINE, BELOW is what the Obama administration expected the “stimulus” to do, per Romer:"

City Segway Tours Chicago - Chicago

City Segway Tours Chicago - Chicago - Reviews of City Segway Tours Chicago
"Traveler Description:
Imagine cruising effortlessly through parks and along sidewalks while receiving a great orientation, informative, historical and current-day......"

This sounds fun!

Moody's Downgrades Los Angeles From Aa2 To Aa3

Moody's Downgrades Los Angeles From Aa2 To Aa3
"In the meantime, as we have been saying for about, oh, 12 months, munis are about to implode.
Here is Moody's, actually being just a year behind the curve on this one."

Liberal Fortress of Los Aneles is (Surprise!) Broke

Liberal Fortress of Los Angeles is (Surprise!) Broke
"Meanwhile, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa continues his war against private enterprise. His game plan for L.A.'s economic stimulus recovery sounds familiar: spend like drunken liberals; empower unions to bleed the hopelessly over-taxed taxpayers; and create vast new bureaucracies to handicap the private sector. Case in point:

As the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power seeks a hefty taxpayer rate hike, a Daily News review of salary data shows the average utility worker makes $76,949 a year -- or nearly 20 percent more than the average civilian city worker.

More than 1,140 of the utility's employees -- or about 13 percent -- take home more than $100,000 a year."

And that's before benefits and retirement at 48.

Prague Surrender

Prague Surrender
"Arms Deal:
President Obama signs away U.S. nuclear security and gives the Russians a veto over whether we can defend ourselves.
Our nuclear umbrella is in tatters as another piece of paper proclaims peace in our time.

Completing a process of disarmament and appeasement that manifested itself in the dismantling and defunding of U.S. military power that began with his inauguration, President Obama signed a new strategic arms limitation treaty with a grinning and very happy Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday in the Czech capital."

Union Memo Hints At Gov.'s Death - wcbstv.com

Union Memo Hints At Gov.'s Death
"The memo is the latest salvo in a war of words between Christie and the union over wage and benefits concessions.

The Record of Bergen County obtained the Bergen County Education Association memo that includes a closing prayer:

'Dear Lord this year you have taken away my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, my favorite actress, Farrah Fawcett, my favorite singer, Michael Jackson, and my favorite salesman, Billy Mays.
I just wanted to let you know that Chris Christie is my favorite governor.'"

CBO chief says debt 'unsustainable'

Too Hot Not to Note: CBO chief says debt 'unsustainable'
"The nation’s fiscal path is “unsustainable,” and the problem “cannot be solved through minor tinkering,” the head of the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday morning."

Federal pay ahead of private industry

Federal pay ahead of private industry
"Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the most recent data available.

These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis."

A Goy and his Blog » Blog Archive » Romer: “America is too stupid to understand my superfantastic advanced Math skillz!!!1!”

A Goy and his Blog » Blog Archive » Romer: “America is too stupid to understand my superfantastic advanced Math skillz!!!1!”: "Romer: “America is too stupid to understand my superfantastic advanced Math skillz!!!1!”"

Four shootings in three weeks put Muskegon neighborhoods on alert | - MLive.com

Four shootings in three weeks put Muskegon neighborhoods on alert

'What's frustrating is that people who know information won't talk to us,' said Muskegon Director of Public Safety Anthony Kleibecker. '
The community needs to step up and talk to us.
It's only a matter of time before a child gets struck by a stray bullet.'"

Well, duh....
If the scumbags aren't any different from the "people", what do we expect?
Our own "Detroit on the lake" is the result of the unions/teacher/libs takeover of our children's education and morals.
And the left demands the answer is more money from the safe/educated areas funnelled to the scumbags who have created this hell on Lake Michigan.

Gimmee a break!

Bogus report: Researchers find Michigan tax credits well spent on job creation

Researchers find Michigan tax credits well spent on job creation
"The report looks at the economic impact of MEGA compared to the alternative of funneling its resources to other government spending.
In doing so, researchers estimate the program increased the state's employment by 18,000 jobs between 1996 when it was created and 2007, according to the report.

The Upjohn study differs from a similar study released by the Anderson Economic Group in March that tackled the effectiveness of several state tax incentives, including MEGA grants.

That study found a 10 percent drop in state business taxes would have more impact than MEGA grants, Bartik said, but the two studies use different assumptions and the amount of money expended each year on MEGA grants is far less than a 10 percent cut in state business taxes."

Their study doesn't include the enormous costs involved with the increase in state employees and their bloated lifetime pensions/benefits to administer these boondoggles.

That adds up to increased taxes, crappier roads and crappier other services or both.

Sorta makes a difference...right?

Greek Bonds Drop a 7th Day; Bund Spread Widens on Budget Woes - Bloomberg.com

Greek Bonds Drop a 7th Day; Bund Spread Widens on Budget Woes
“Greece continues to look like a slow-motion train crash,” Steve Barrow, head of Group of 10 currency strategy at Standard Bank Plc in London, wrote in a report.

“The crash has not occurred yet but it is coming.

Efforts to avoid a crash seem doomed to failure, whether it’s emergency loans or some other initiative."

The answer to this problem is simple.

Less government spending, workers and insane retirement benefits.

Sadly, every government (and most in the world wide MSM) are looking everywhere else for a solution.

We are doomed unless a Ronnie or Maggie lands in our world soon!

2 years after tax law, Michigan's making movies

2 years after tax law, Michigan's making movies
"The tax credit program is projected to cost the state nearly $69 million for projects completed in 2009, not counting incentives given for permanent infrastructure projects, according to the Michigan Film Office.
The potential annual bill is higher — more than $100 million — but some projects weren't finished and won't get the tax credits."

John Hantz prepared to break ground on urban farm in Detroit, but hints of suburban backup

John Hantz prepared to break ground on urban farm in Detroit, but hints of suburban backup
"While Mayor Dave Bing has offered public support for the concept of urban farming, Hantz tells Berman the city is, unfortunately, living up to its reputation as a tough place to do business."

The socialist, racists who run the hell hole called Detroit do not want white outsiders in their city.
They only want their money.
They don't want thousands of black entrepreneurs.
They want black slaves dependent on their Detroit plantation owners.

There is absolutely NO hope for the city until it is emptied, bulldozed and the population replaced by Americans who will get up in the morning and go to work.
And that ain't never gonna happen in Detroit.

My Way - Sports News

My Way - Sports News: "LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins delivered on their promise to help coach John Calipari return Kentucky to national prominence.
Next stop, the NBA.
The freshman All-Americans are among five Kentucky players who declared for the NBA draft on Wednesday, an exodus that includes freshman guard Eric Bledsoe, freshman center Daniel Orton and junior forward Patrick Patterson."

TEA PARTY VIOLENCE:” Union Protester Attacks Tea Partier at Fort Lauderdale Townhall M…

MORE, AHEM, “TEA PARTY VIOLENCE:
” Union Protester Attacks Tea Partier at Fort Lauderdale Townhall Meeting.

And another reason to have a camera.

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 8:58 pm"

Double-dip recession increasingly unlikely, economists say

Double-dip recession increasingly unlikely, economists say

Over the past few days, economists have been saying that fears of a double-dip recession are starting to ease, thanks to positive economic news in the past week."
Odds are against a double-dip recession," economist Alan Greenspan told ABC's "This Week," and on NBC's "Meet the Press," the chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, Cristina Romer predicted economic growth for the year of 3 percent, which she said would be enough to keep creating jobs, according to a story from CNN Money.

BULLSHIT!
Let's see how these liars are covered by the lib MSM 12 months from now.
We will spend ourselves into bankruptcy by hiring government workers (fed, state and local) and hiding the econo-disaster only so long.
The USSR (and California) taught us nothing?

Natural causes cited in death of Michigan's last wild wolverine

Natural causes cited in death of Michigan's last wild wolverine
"A necropsy performed at a DNRE lab at Michigan State University showed some heart degeneration and liver congestion, but no sign of infection or trauma."

Coincidence with the Ann Arbor wolverines.

I think not!

Think about it.

4 years spent with Michigan "womyn"!

I'm thinkin' liver/heart and any other disease would do any varmit in.

And bleat for the poor UM "male" freshman.....it's gotta be ugly....